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Lawmakers were asking whether or not congress has let the surveillance go too far and this comes just weeks after n.s.a. leaker edward snowden disclosed classified information about the u.s. spying on the emails and phone calls of americans. he has a real problem with this kind of surveillance. why didn t we just tell everybody about it is because the american people would be totally outraged as they are getting now, as they become familiar with this. every phone number that they ve ever called is already a matter of record and we skip over whether the collection was a fourth amendment rielgs. we just say that the access proves in one case or two that it was very important. ....
There s no connection to any surveillance program? we don t know anything about that. because surveillance is a hot topic right now, how do you see the issues working together as far as our surveillance abilities and their effectiveness? we would not be worried about the n.s.a. leaks if this was in a different context. i talked to somebody who is in charge with medidata. they store the records and then if they find a terrorist, they want to recreate conversations. who was he talking to two years ago, three years ago? maybe it wasn t just to mom about groceries. maybe he was talking to somebody in yemen, in benghazi. that s why, for example, remember when the boston bomber, they got the cell and they wanted to go back and recreate who the guys talked to? that s why it s useful. the problem is we don t have a lot of confidence that the government is doing what it says it s going to do. jenna: the rationale makes sense to some, raises questions to ....
Letter from union leaders, more restaurants will replace full timers concerned about insurance. that also from the journal a couple of days ago. the press on this thing, bob, is not looking good for the administration. no. it s not looking good, john. when you have one of the authors saying it s going to be a train wreck, it s not a good situation. so far in implementation, it s so far, so bad for the administration. now, they have some time. enrollment starts october 1 and all these other issues, whether it s benghazi or the n.s.a. or even i.r. schl, i think that if obama care implementation goes very well, that s a boom for democrats in the 2014 election f. it goes badly, that will be active at that time in the fall of 2014 and that could help republicans win back control of the senate if it is, in fact, a train wreck. jon: republicans or cynics or whatever have said that part of the reason they believe the administration wants to delay the employer mandate ....
Jenna: that s just a snip pet of the hearing. steve, what is the general tone of the hearing? well, as you heard this widespread opposition to the surveillance program and members of the house judiciary committee have different reasons for opposing it. at issue, the secret data gathering by the national security agency uncovered by former n.s.a. technology expert and now leaker, edward snowden. congress has called on the carpet officials from the n.s.a., the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. the committee wants to find out whether the domestic spying was a violation of citizens rights or an abuse of the government s legal authority. the committee chairman of virginia wondered why the government wanted to keep the program secret. do you think a program of this magnitude gathering information involving a large number of people involved with telephone companies and so on could be indefinitely kept secret from the american people? ....
Controversial new issue of rolling stone with the boston marathon bomber. and breaking news. second hour of happening now starts right now. jon: welcome to hour two. the n.s.a. leak controversy is also taking center stage on capit capitol hill today. jenna: it s always somehow there in the conversation. jon: in the airport in moscow. jenna: must be tough for edward snowden to be in the airport but rightly so. from russia we turn to d.c. where lawmakers are putting the government s sweeping surveillance programs under the microscope yet again with the house judiciary committee hearing underway. this is not the right hering. that s ben bernanke on something else entirely, the economy. what the hearing was doing, they were asking the question or ....